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  • Online safety research ignores Māori

    Online safety research ignores Māori

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The latest research report Global Kids Online: Digital Parenting Strategies and Behaviours of New Zealand Parents, published by NetSafe interviewed parents of children aged 9-17 about the prevalence of different practices to influence or mediate children’s internet use. Yey! Māori and Pacifika were under represented in the research, Further contributing to the increasing discrimination and

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  • Kaitiakitanga Māori Data Sovereignty Licences

    Kaitiakitanga Māori Data Sovereignty Licences

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    This article introduces six new licence to protect Māori Data and recognise Māori Data Sovereignty rights today and for the next 1000 years. Māori Data Sovereignty principles are also updated to reflect Māori society and the Social Licence is reviewed as not appropriate for Māori and Indigenous Data.     Citations This article can be

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  • Hapū Data Sovereignty Dataset

    Hapū Data Sovereignty Dataset

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    A new dataset of Iwi and hapū names that will form the basis of hapū data sovereignty for database administrators allowing hapū to regain sovereignty over their own data in this new society where data is the new currency.   Referencing This document may be referenced as: Karaitiana Taiuru (2021). Explanation and notes of the

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  • Culturally Safe Mihimihi for non Māori

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    At the beginning of meetings, as practiced on marae and in meetings all over the country, a round of introductions and speeches usually occurs. During this time, Māori ordinarily stand to share a little bit about where they come from and who they are. If you are of Māori descent, these introductions often start with

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  • Indigenising through Te Taha Wairua: AI, Algorithms, Data, Internet and IOT

    Indigenising through Te Taha Wairua: AI, Algorithms, Data, Internet and IOT

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    This article indigenises the Internet and the global digital eco-system which is often called the Web or digital network, and has been specifically written to assist with understanding Data sovereignty, Internet, systems, robotics, algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (AI) from a customary Māori perspective. For those who have been reading my series of articles, this is

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  • Māori Data Sovereignty Consultation Obligations

    Māori Data Sovereignty Consultation Obligations

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Update: All Māori Data Sovereignty posts have been combined and updated into a Compendium of Māori Data Sovereignty – https://www.taiuru.co.nz/compendium-of-maori-data-sovereignty/  This article is the most recent in a number of Māori Data Sovereignty and AI posts. My previous post is called Māori Data Sovereignty an Updated Definition. Māori Data Sovereignty consultation requires much more than only

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  • Māori perspective to the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Amendment Bill

    Māori perspective to the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Amendment Bill

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Research and statistics show that Māori are more likely to see harmful material online and to be victims of online bullying. Often Māori are the primary person in harmful materials online. Statistics released by the Ministry of Justice show that the main culprits are European men. Despite these alarming facts, Māori voices or at least

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  • European men mostly charged under Harmful Digital Communications Act

    European men mostly charged under Harmful Digital Communications Act

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    In New Zealand European men aged between 20 and 39 years old are most likely to commit harmful digital acts and be charged, according to the annual statistics from the Ministry of Justice. The most likely victims of harmful digital communications are young Māori females, then Pacific and Asian females (NetSafe). Yet, Māori are more

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  • Google Translate Māori – Sexist and Ignorant of LGBTQ+

    Google Translate Māori – Sexist and Ignorant of LGBTQ+

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Google Translate is another example of AI, Algorithms and Machine Learning discriminating against minorities, while misrepresenting the Maori language and customs . Google Translate interprets te reo Maori more accurately as it learns and is supporting the revival of te reo Māori. While it had the expertise of Dr Te Taka Keegan in its development,

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  • Origins of the term Pākehā

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The word Pākehā is a controversial word for some people. Some Māori and non Māori claim that the word Pākehā is offensive. Others have attempted to explain the word based on their own understandings and sometimes own hapū and whānau interpretations. Introduction This article provides an holistic analysis based on research from the early 18th

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  • Tikanga about animated pictures of the dead

    Tikanga about animated pictures of the dead

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    A new technological trend of animating images of people is becoming popular with images Māori tipuna and other dead people being animated for fun without knowledge of the offence to Māori, whānau, hapū and Iwi, nor the tikanga breaches. The app is called “My Heritage app”. In the past week I have seen several images

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  • Māori Data Sovereignty an Updated Definition

    Māori Data Sovereignty an Updated Definition

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Update: All Māori Data Sovereignty posts have been combined and updated into a Compendium of Māori Data Sovereignty – https://www.taiuru.co.nz/compendium-of-maori-data-sovereignty/  Over the past four years there has been such a directed focus on Iwi rights with Data held by the Crown that the definition of Māori Data Sovereignty has neglected traditional and modern Māori societal hierarchy

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  • Can the Māori Language be colonised if used with AI and other digital technologies?

    Can the Māori Language be colonised if used with AI and other digital technologies?

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    This brief article looks at the idea that the Māori language will be colonised if used in speech recognition, machine learning, AI and other linguist technologies. This article makes the argument that the Māori language can not be colonised and that by making such statements will only hinder Māori Peoples and wellbeing. As technology is

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  • Māori Culture Guidelines for Brand Owners and Marketing

    Māori Culture Guidelines for Brand Owners and Marketing

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    These high level guidelines have been written by Karaitiana Taiuru who has been involved with Māori Cultural rights, Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge and assisting brands both in New Zealand and internationally for over 25 years. Last updated January 10 2021. The motivation to write this document is to provide an introduction to Māori cultural appropriation

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  • Maori Cultural DNA

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    At the end of November 2020,  the Law Commission released a report on DNA samples in Criminal Investigations that made sweeping recommendations that included protecting Māori cultural rights and recognising Te Tiriti obligations. It recommended that the law governing the taking of DNA samples the Criminal Investigations (Bodily Samples) Act (CIBS Act) be updated to

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  • Classic racist reply to claims of cultural appropriation

    Classic racist reply to claims of cultural appropriation

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    I have been calling out and educating perpetrators of cultural appropriation for decades. Of the hundreds of responses and abuse mocking me, there is a common theme as follows: As a Maori/Indigenous Person (etc) you wear European clothes, a European watch, use a computer that your people didn’t use to have, drive a car which

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  • Māori Cultural considerations with Facial Recognition Technology in New Zealand

    Māori Cultural considerations with Facial Recognition Technology in New Zealand

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    The New Zealand Police, Customs, Ministry of Justice, DIA and other government agencies have a wide arsenal of Facial Recognition technologies with little or no regulation or consultation with Māori. This will likely lead to the likelihood of further widespread discrimination and cultural unsafe practices that will directly impact Māori as we have already seen

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  • Māori Data Sovereignty and Associated Legal Instruments

    Māori Data Sovereignty and Associated Legal Instruments

    Karaitiana Taiuru

    Update: All Māori Data Sovereignty posts have been combined and updated into a Compendium of Māori Data Sovereignty – https://www.taiuru.co.nz/compendium-of-maori-data-sovereignty/  A new and inclusive of all Māori people and societies, not just Iwi as has been the status quo since Māori Data Sovereignty was first discussed in 2016 or thereabouts, definitions of Māori Data and Māori

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